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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

The new CEO came into the role as an operational maestro who would bring a critical eye to that vast portfolio of businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Brunson became an expert dribbler with both hands, a maestro of footwork and fundamentals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Radio 1's dance music maestro Danny Howard tell us backstage.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

“I am Chroma the Great,” he continued, gesturing broadly with his hands, “conductor of color, maestro of pigment, and director of the entire spectrum.”

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

Just as much, those maestri would defer to Mr. Drucker’s interpretations of clarinet solos.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

As an example let us take the case of the radio maestri.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have written three operas, and am a member of the Bologna Academy; I underwent a trial where several maestri toiled and labored for four or five hours, whereas I finished my work in one.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl

The art of Priscilla seems to me to satisfy this test much better than that of many of our modern maestri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various

And this piece of ecclesiastical furniture therefore presented a great field for the taste and ingenuity of the old maestri in wood-carving to exhibit their skill both in design and in execution.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

Only Swedish pop maestros Abba have breached the seven million mark since, making it an elite club.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Donning video headsets and armed with nothing more than a joystick and the Olympics’ fastest fingers, these maestros have the exact same objective as the athlete they’re filming: to be the best in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Speaking of midfield maestros, the mercurial Zinedine Zidane has been out of management since leaving Barcelona's Clasico rivals Real Madrid in 2021.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first time, diverse young maestros and maestras is upon us?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

As powerful as ACD’s computer was, however, the maestros of Project Mercury would require even more electronic horsepower for what was to come next.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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